SammiDitto 📚✏️🧶

Oops, I've been gone a long time.

But hi! Here is a painting as penance! I did this as part of a gift swap. Can find this little one on IG as tassowizard.

#acrylicpainting #dogpainting

Lots of people craving analog experiences, more grounded lives, and connection.

I'm going to talk about it in a quarterly newsletter: "Touching Grass."

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#touchgrass #analog #typewriters #luddite #outdoorsy #logoff

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1st day back to school! Got some new mask chains this year! #covidconscious #stillcoviding #maskup

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!

If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask.

If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask.

If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask.

If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask.

My ultimate guide to respirators:

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Painting of an iris flower in front of a fence, painted from a reference photo. The painting is on an easel with a paint palette below it

A finished painting of an iris in front of a fence, created from a reference photo. The painting is hanging on the wall

The reference photo ---> The painting

This was my very first commission and I'm really proud of it. I look forward to continuing to flex my muscles and build my skills. I hope I get more commissions in the future!

#acrylicart #artsky #paintersky #newartist

oh my gosh, yes! Now I'm pushing it on my husband (luckily just one I have to keep track of)!

Review by sammiditto - The Husbands If you're trying to get out of a bit of a reading slump, or you feel like you're not reading e...

I thoroughly enjoyed The Husbands! I wasn't in a COMPLETE book rut, but I found myself reading slower than I wanted to, and this book whipped me into shape. Thank you for writing something so delightful, @hollygramazio.bsky.social !!

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#booksky #readingsky

Painting by Sammi Dittloff of lilacs against a green background with two branches behind the main focus

This was my second painting that I started, but I just finished it! I had to take some time to work on a gift before I got back to this. I'm really proud of my progress.

My next piece is a commission! So, that is a thing I do now!

#artist #acrylicpainting #newartist #artsky #paintingsky #lilacs

Thank you thank you!

Painting of a homemade bouquet ball with multiple colors and ribbons made into flowers with brooches in the center

Reference photo for bouquet ball painting. Multicolored ribbon flowers with brooches in the middle.

My third painting was a commission for a friend's wedding. Check out the finished product and the reference photo!

If you're the kind of person who likes progress photos you can find them on TT (SammiDitto there too)

#artsky #paintingsky #acrylicpainting

One of the biggest curses of my life is that I'm always typing "Canva" when I want "Canvas" and vice versa.

#academicsky #marketersky

I got just about every book on that list plus some from a list called "books with a bonkers premise" as part of my birthday book shopping. Thank you for making a book that makes Slack more fun!

(This is the other list: www.tiktok.com/@lesbo.libra...)

I actually picked it up from the library!

OMG @kasulke.co I found your book on a TikTok list with books about late-stage capitalism that are also funny and flew through it.

The horror! The humor! The howling! I loved it.

(here's the list btw: www.tiktok.com/@its__bailey...)

#booksky #readingsky

I really wonder what my experience would have been had I not known anything going in, but the performances were really good, which definitely made up for it!

A ★★★½ review of Abigail (2024) I feel like this girl is kind of like the Willy Wonka of vampire ballerinas.

I wish this wasn't one of those movies where every trailer gave it away, but I found fun in other places.

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#moviesky #filmsky

Yes, plug away!!

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Is my TBR heinous? Yes. Do I also want your book recommendations so I know what to shop for at indie / used book stores on my birthday? Also yes. I'm in the mood for the weird, the wacky, the heartwarming, the funny, the Black Mirror-adjacent, and always down for non-fiction. Whatcha got? #booksky

Tabling at #WalkMS in the Twin Cities! Trying to drum up interest for the #challengewalkms - this will be my 10th year! Wanna give me a head start?

Bit.ly/challengewalk2025

A ★★★★ review of Drop (2025) I have been loyal to Christopher Landon since Happy Death Day, and I'm not stopping now. Remember that movie Cellular? Or Phone Booth? Or The Net? They're all just appetizers, baby, like that coconut ...

I still think Happy Death Day is wildly underrated, and because this film from Landon came out, I found out that Happy Death Day 3 may still happen. There's hope!

#letterboxd #moviesky #drop #dropmovie #happydeathday

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My second painting! This one came from a Katie Jobling tutorial.

#paintsky #artsky #sunset #painting #acrylicpainting

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Happy Milwaukee Day to all who celebrate! Except to that guy who trademarked the area code. I hope your pillows are always hot and your soup is always cold.
#fouronefour #milwaukeeday

I just read the first 25 pages of Cuckoo by @scumbelievable.bsky.social and I'm already hooked. OMG I can't wait to see where it goes from here #booksky #

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Mychal smiles in a Library Joy sweater while holding his hands in the shape of a heart

Mychal gives two thumbs up and smiles while wearing a Library Joy shirt

Library Joy 🥹📚

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because Happy Death Day is one of the best horror comedy movies I've ever seen, up there with M3GAN IMO! And the second one is even more interesting.

Thank you! I keep debating whether I want to keep it or add some kind of pastel background to match my kitchen. I figure it can sit like that for now.

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

There is something VERY special about being from Wisconsin. So many of us are deeply proud of it. I know your Yiayia is somewhere feeling amazing about what happened yesterday! We are not for sale 💙

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Me, a Wisconsinite, all day today...

Congrats to Susan Crawford, Jill Underly, and so many others, and way to go, Wisconsin!

#onwisconsin #susancrawford

Painting of a strawberry on a white background

I started painting lessons about a month ago. This is my first painting! I'm pretty proud of it. I might add a background, idk. Let me know what you think!

#artsky #art #paint #paintsky #acrylic #strawberry #painter